Needle-threader.



G. B. ROWE.

NEEDLE THREADER.

APPLICATION IILBD APILll, 1913.

1,1 17,522. Patented Nov. 17,1914.

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GEORGE B. ROWE, OF OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA.

NEEDLE-THREADER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 1'7, 1914.

Application filed April 11, 1913. Serial No. 760,504.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Gnoaon B. ROWE, citizenof the United States, residing at Oklahoma city, in the county ofOklahoma and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Needle-Threaders, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to devices for threading needles, and has for oneof its objects to improve the construction and increase the efliciencyand utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simply constructeddevice whereby needles of various sizes and with eyes of various areasmay be readily threaded in a dim light or in the dark or by blindpersons.

Vith these and other objects in View the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described andthen specifically pointed out in the claim, and in the drawingsillustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective proved device from above.

view of the im- F1g. 2 1s a perspective view of the improved devicefrom,

beneath. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the improveddevice.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

The improved device comprises a stock 10 of any suitablematerial and ofany suitable form, and preferably slightly less in length than theshortest needle through the eye of which it is designed to pass thethread. The stock will preferably be formed with a flat upper side and arounded lower side as represented, but it is not de signed to limit theinvention in any manner in this respect. Formed in the upper flat faceof the body is a longitudinally extending groove or channel 11 openingat one end through the end of the stock and terminating at the other enda short distance from the adjacent end of the stock. Depending from thestock at one end is a head or projection 12 having a converging aperture13 with the smaller end of the aperture communicating with the groove 11near its closed end as represented. The smaller end of the aperture isrelatively small, and preferably of less diameter than an arm 14, theupper the eye of the smallest needle through which it is designed topass the thread.

Extending from the stock 10 at one side is face of the arm being intransverse alinement with the upper face of the stock. Ri'veted orotherwise attached at 15 to the arm 1-1 is a flat spring 16 whichextends over the flat upper face of the stock and projects for adistance beyond the opposite edge of the same, as shown at 17, and ispreferably slightly curved away from the stock to enable a needle to bemore readily passed beneath the spring and into the groove.

To thread a needle by the improved device, the needle is forced beneaththe holding spring 16 and into the groove 11 with the eye end againstthe closed end of the groove which position will place the eye of theneedle in alinement with the reduced terminal of the aperture 13. If theeye of a needle is not in proper position it can be properly located bysimply turning the needle either by thrusting a pin or the point ofanother needle in its eye and turning the latter until the eye isproperly placed rela tive to the aperture. By this arrangement theconverging aperture 13 forms a guide to the thread which may be thusthrust into the relatively large open end of the aperture and guidedwithout special care through the eye of the needle. By this arrangementit will be obvious that it is only necessary to pass the thread into therelatively large open end of the aperture to cause the latter to beguided directly through the eye. The thread is then drawn through theeye of the needle for a distance and the needle extracted from beneaththe spring and the surplus thread drawn through the aperture.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be inexpensivelymanufactured and adapted without structural change to needles of varioussizes and lengths.

By this arrangement a person can thread a needle in a dim light, or whenblind or partially blind, or whose eyesight is impaired, while at thesame time the device is also very useful for persons with good eyesightto enable them to thread needles without special care or attention orstraining the e es.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

A device of the character described inthe walls of said openingconverging toward the groove, said stock also having a laterallyextending arm formed thereon provided with a flat face in transversealinement with the flat face of the stock, and a flat spring carried bythe arm and extendingftransversely of the face of the stock and across ibowed upwardly adjacent its free extremity away from said face, wherebya needle may i-bereadi-ly passed between the adjacent ex tremity of thespring and the contiguous flat face of the stock for insertion in saidgroove. In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

GEORGEB. ROWE. [1,. s.] Witnesses (1.. P. .KELLEY, L. V. 'JoNEs.

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Washington, D; G."

